LocutusOfTeddy wrote:

Hi! Sunday morning raiding…if you still have a spot, I’d love to join in the fun! I’m time zone challenged…is this 8am EST?

Yes! And yay!

Exellent, added Ted to team.

I'm sorta excited.

@LocutusOfTeddy have you done VOG before? What character will you be using?

@CobaltMonkey we have 2 warlocks, 2 titans, 1 hunter and what Teddy is...how do you want us to load up? I'm on well with booties. Do you want us all to use the extra light damage buff, orrrr?

Bring your best guns.


A good fusion rifle (not Reed's Regret, as stasis damage doesn't benefit from Focusing Lens). Null Composure (last season's seasonal weapon) is another good option.

For any phase that needs a lot of add clear, Trinity Ghoul exotic bow is amazing. You can use it for pretty much any encounter, except bosses.

For Gatekeeper, two people are going to want the Disrupting Blade seasonal mod and a sword to use on champions. Those people will be on Team Plate, holding the door open.

Anything else, we'll sort out at the time.

I have Null Composure but not with vorpal and I have Distrupting blade for the plates.

I have Null too. Wtf is vorpal?
Should I bring my shocky hands?

It's a roll on the weapon Beanz. Do you have the other mods that Monk mentioned?
For boss, I would say Nova bomb, but arc will work before that.

Dis

Can't see what mods you have equipped though Beanz.

Yeah sorry, I was going to send image by image but got caught up in something else. I'll send them thru psn later. Easier that way.

That's a faff Beanz, don't worry bout that, am sure you're set. 

What's a faff?

Lolz, sorry. It's.....hassle, too much trouble, takes too long.. kinda thing. You will be speaking the lingo soon 

I will remember this.

Porky wrote:

Lolz, sorry. It's.....hassle, too much trouble, takes too long.. kinda thing. You will be speaking the lingo soon 

The only word I know in your language Porkzy, is cheers!
Im surprised we're even able to communicate..

CobaltMonkey wrote:

Bring your best guns.  


A good fusion rifle (not Reed's Regret, as stasis damage doesn't benefit from Focusing Lens). Null Composure (last season's seasonal weapon) is another good option.

For any phase that needs a lot of add clear, Trinity Ghoul exotic bow is amazing. You can use it for pretty much any encounter, except bosses.  

For Gatekeeper, two people are going to want the Disrupting Blade seasonal mod and a sword to use on champions. Those people will be on Team Plate, holding the door open.

Anything else, we'll sort out at the time.

I run the disrupting mod on my sword. Team plate it is.

Oh and uhm....telesto...cough cough

So me and Six are on plate duty in boss room.

Y'all just point to where I should be.. that's where I'll be.

Notice Six stopped getting kicked when I left? I was right about my theory. High traffic.

Happy for you guys. You kicked ass!

Sadfaice you weren't there all the way through 

Good game guys. I get so scared lol.
Here's the stats if anyone is interested. Sill low on mine but improved from the last run 




So umm Last Wish next? 

In Six's defense, a *lot* of those deaths were us pushing him off the ledge while he was afk.

And sure, I'm down for a Last Wish run. Just be warned that it is more mechanics-heavy than VoG, and I am not experienced enough to fully lead the thing. Of course, we could always warp to Riven, then just do that and Queenswalk if we just wanted a completion.

Welp…sorry I didn’t check here earlier and for not figuring out my mic until oracles.

The deaths for us all were mostly from jumping off the side so we could get the challenge. None of us really died much otherwise.
3 of the same Scout rifle from 3 chests

No problem Ted, glad we got it sorted

I'm down to Wishing our way through LW Monks.

I must've used up all my loot luck on the last run. Got nothing but Corrective Measures and duplicate armor pieces all the way through. I think vision of confluence is the only thing I still need. Well, that and to get a group down to do a run for the Vex catalyst.

Riven is easy enough to fight. With the right setup, people solo her. So, it shouldn't be much of a problem for a team.  
The real fight is going to be Queenswalk. The mechanics we deal with are fairly simple, but tough to execute just right if you don't have practice. The goal is to carry Riven's Heart from her corpse back to an altar in a prior place in the raid, but everything is broken and Takeny so it's important to know where to go. I'll drop a video of the route to take when I can dig one up.

One person is randomly chosen to be able to carry the Heart and gets a buff on the left of their screen with a timer. While we make our way back to the altar, we need to stick close to the Heart Carrier because outside of their radius, there is a constant debuff that gets worse the longer you're outside. To put it in VoG terms, the Heart is like the Relic only instead of having to hold a button to put out the cleansing effect, you get a slowly shrinking aura that just automatically surrounds you.  

Now, remember that timer on the left of the screen. When it runs out, anyone that is inside the aura gets teleported inside the Heart. This always includes the one carrying the Heart since you can't put it down (or attack or anything) while you have it. At this point, another person is chosen (again, randomly) to get to carry the Heart, and they will get the timer.  
Meanwhile, inside the heart there will be Taken to fight and a buff to collect called Taken Strength. It looks like a big floating orb. You can only collect one Taken Strength buff at a time or you die, and there will be one for each person who has been teleported into the Heart so far. When the last one that has spawned is collected, it resets the timer for the person currently carrying the Heart so they can make more progress before they join you. The Taken Strength orbs will spawn only once per person carrying the Heart, so eventually 5 or all 6 people will be a carrier.
The first person teleported into the Heart should always grab a Taken Strength *last*. This makes it much easier to keep track of when you're triggering the timer refresh. And lets everyone else just grab one right when they are teleported in and focus on putting down Taken until the next set of Taken Strength orbs spawn.

So, it is absolutely vital for the Heart Carrier to communicate how much time is left on your timer. We need a running countdown so we know when to collect that last Strength, because we want to do it in the last few seconds so it resets the timer as much as possible. But also we need warning to be outside the cleansing aura so we don't get teleported with the Carrier. Too many people inside means we don't make it to the altar, and it's a wipe.

Let me run through a sample chain of events here.  
Queenswalk starts. Porky gets the Heart Carrier buff. Picks up Riven's Heart and starts running for the exit.  
She tells us when she's at 15 seconds left, 10 seconds left, and then counts down at 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.  
Everyone else backs away.  
Porky is now inside the Heart.
Six is then chosen as the Heart Carrier.  
He picks up the Heart and everyone gets close again, and shoots down any Taken they see to keep him alive. Porky fights Taken inside and looks for the floating orb.  
Six gives the same countdown, and when he's in the last five seconds, Porky grabs the orb, resetting Six's timer.  
Six again gives the countdown, and we all back away outside his aura, and he gets teleported.  
I am chosen as the Heart Carrier.  
Six immediately finds and grabs a Taken Strength orb. Porky, as the first person teleported, will always get the last available buff.  
I give the countdown, and in the last five seconds, Porky again grabs that buff, resetting my timer.  
Repeat with each new person until we run out of people or we get the Heart to the Altar.

Like I said, it's fairly simple. But it can be harder to keep straight when you're fighting the whole time. That's why the communication is so important.